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Racing for the Buoy / Coming Up to Inner Automatic Buoy

Identified in Merkel & MacAskill, Schooner Bluenose (1948), as 'Coming up to Inner Automatic Buoy, First Elimination Race' (1921); and in MacAskill, Out of Halifax (1937) as "Racing for the Buoy: A fair wind, a fine day, and the mark in sight!'

Date: 1921

Photographer: W.R. MacAskill

Reference: W.R. MacAskill Nova Scotia Archives 'Out of Halifax' series, no. 76

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